In Brief...Wolrd News Review Heart Disease Still a Big Killer
"Heart disease is the nation's number one cause of death....
Obesity is becoming a bigger and bigger problem in our Anglo-American nations, and one by-product of being overweight is greater vulnerability to heart disease.
In a recent report from Dallas published in The American (A U.K. based newspaper for ex patriates), these startling facts were presented: "The cost of heart disease is expected to cost the nation billions of dollars this year as more and more people become fat. Heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular diseases will cost the nation $274.2 billion, up six per cent from $259.1 billion in 1997, the American Heart Association reported.
"Heart disease is the nation's number one cause of death.... Overweight or obese people are more likely to develop heart attacks and strokes even if they have no other risk factors.... In 1995, the most recent year for which figures are available, 960,592 people died of cardiovascular diseases in the United States, an increase of nearly 11,000 from 1994" (January 9, 1999, emphasis ours).
Heart disease is also plaguing Britain. Wrote Jenny Hope, Medical Correspondent for The Daily Mail: "Heart disease remains Britain's biggest killer, accounting for half of all deaths and costing £10 billion a year.... Half of those deaths could be prevented by a healthier lifestyle-such as cutting out smoking, eating more fruits and vegetables and less fat, and taking more exercise" (November 3, 1998).
However, in spite of the enormous threat to health from heart disease in Britain, nearly five times as much money is spent on trying to prevent AIDS.
An Article from:
World News and Prophecy: February 1999
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Darris McNeely
Darris McNeely works at the United Church of God home office in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and his wife, Debbie, have served in the ministry for more than 43 years. They have two sons, who are both married, and four grandchildren. Darris is the Associate Media Producer for the Church. He also is a resident faculty member at the Ambassador Bible Center teaching Acts, Fundamentals of Belief and World News and Prophecy. He enjoys hunting, travel and reading and spending time with his grandchildren.
David Palmer
Born in Saskatchewan Canada, David Palmer was first introduced to the radio broadcast of the World Tomorrow during his career in broadcasting, when the program was aired during his on air shift. In 1965 his radio career took him to Vancouver British Columbia, where he was eventually baptized, and began attending Sabbath services. He was ordained to the ministry in 1983. Now retired from broadcasting David currently pastors congregations in Vancouver, and Vancouver Island. He is also a member of the UCG-Canada National Council, and serves on the Canadian Ministerial Services Team, as well as the Canadian Media Team
John Ross Schroeder
John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
Some of John's work for The Good News appeared under his byline, but much didn't. He wrote more than a thousand articles over the years, but also wrote the Questions and Answers section of the magazine, compiled our Letters From Our Readers, and wrote many of the items in the Current Events and Trends section. He also contributed greatly to a number of our study guides and Bible Study Course lessons. His writing has touched the lives of literally millions of people over the years.
John traveled widely over the years as an accredited journalist, especially in Europe. His knowledge of European and Middle East history added a great deal to his articles on history and Bible prophecy.
In his later years he also pastored congregations in Northern Ireland and East Sussex, and that experience added another dimension to his writing. He and his wife Jan were an effective team in our British Isles office near their home.
John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
